‘The Boys’ Creator Eric Kripke Confirms Jensen Ackles’ Exit as Soldier Boy Before Season 5 Finale
Amazon Prime Video’s The Boys is quick approaching its ultimate days, as its subsequent Season 5 episode would be the sequence finale. Running for seven years and 40 episodes general, The Boys has been one of many streamer’s largest hits, providing a grounded take a look at the superhero world and holding nothing again when it comes to violence, gore, and darkish storylines. This season has delivered one surprising second after one other, starting off with A-Train’s death at Homelander’s hands.
After being absent for nearly all of Season 4, Season 5 has additionally featured Jensen Ackles’s return as Soldier Boy, reuniting him with creator Eric Kripke after 15 years of working collectively on Supernatural. The season even included a wild Supernatural meetingas Ackles bought to share the display screen with Jared Padalecki (Mr. Marathon) and Misha Collins (Malchemical) earlier than Soldier Boy killed Malchemical and broke Mr. Marathon’s legs in Episode 5, with Antony Starr’s Homelander ending off Padalecki’s Supe. Now, with just one episode remaining, a brand new quote signifies Soldier Boy’s stunning destiny as the present inches nearer to its finish.
Speaking with Collider, The Boys creator Eric Kripke confirmed that Jensen Ackles’s time as Soldier Boy on The Boys has formally come to an finish after Season 5, Episode 7. Discussing the road wherein Ackles mentions “fixing up the Impala,” which references the 1967 Chevrolet Impala his Dean Winchester drove in all 15 seasons of SupernaturalKripke famous that this reference was included very intentionally:
“Knowing that that was going to be Jensen’s last scene in the series, we wanted to put in one last reference. Honestly, [writer Anslem Richardson] he wrote and we shot that it was a Ford. It was, ‘Working on the old Ford.’ The danger of having (director) Phil Sgriccia and I, sitting next to each other in editing, which we would do, was that we were watching it and Phil was like, ‘Should it be ‘Impala’?’ And I was like, ‘Yeah, it should definitely be ‘Impala.'” And so, Jenson looped in ‘Impala simply to do one final nod.’
At the tip of Episode 7, after a serious verbal sparring session between Homelander and Soldier Boy, Homelander chokes his father into unconsciousness. However, as a substitute of killing him, he places Soldier Boy again right into a cryogenic chamber (just like how he entered the present in Season 3), making certain that he survives. Unfortunately, this implies Ackles shall be one of many largest characters lacking from the sequence finale.
Fortunately, Ackles’s tenure as Soldier Boy is way from over, as he will reprise the role in the upcoming Vought Rising prequel series for Prime Video. This sequence will spotlight Vought’s origins within the Nineteen Fifties and present Soldier Boy’s early exploits, reuniting him with Aya Cash’s Stormfront and placing her darkish and diabolical nature within the highlight.
The sequence finale of The Boys will start streaming on Amazon Prime Video on May 20, 2026.
